Amy Schumer Says Vow to Leave Country if Trump Won Was a Joke

Actress Amy Schumer isn’t planning on moving out of the United States after all.

In an Instagram post on Wednesday, the Trainwreck star said that her announcement that she would leave the country if Republican Donald Trump were elected president was said “in jest.”

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“First of all the interview where I said I would move was in London and was said in jest,” Shumer wrote. “Not that anyone needs more than a headline to count something as official news. Anyone saying pack your bags is just as disgusting as anyone who voted for this racist homophobic openly disrespectful woman abuser.”

Schumer had been a vocal supporter of Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton.

In a September interview on BBC’s Newsnight, Schumer said she would need to learn Spanish if Trump were elected, because she would “move to Spain or somewhere.”

In October, hundreds of Trump supporters stood up and walked out of the comedian’s performance in Tampa, Florida after she began mercilessly mocking Trump as part of her routine. She later read an ironic open letter to Trump supporters claiming she would go to “rehab” to seek treatment.

“My heart is in a million pieces,” Schumer wrote Wednesday. “My heart breaks for my niece and my friends who are pregnant bringing children into the world right now. Like everyone else I am horrified that people believed these bumper sticker slogans filled with hate he spewed.”

Schumer also went after those who voted for Trump, claiming they are “not just misinformed,” but also “weak.”

“You didn’t even attempt information,” she added. “You say lock her up and you know something about the word email but what was in the emails? You have no clue. Well I’ll tell you if you were able to read this far through the holes in your sheet. They said nothing incriminating. Nothing. She dedicated her entire life to public service and got our children Heath care and education without discrimination. he didn’t pay his workers. Started a fake college. Ripped people off. Never paid his taxes and sexually assaulted women and on and on She would have taken care of us.”